On 02.03.2017 15:58, "Torsten Hüter" wrote:
> Chris:
>>> With a proper implementation this should be indistinguishable from
>>> coroutines, including to wx.
> 
> This is your opinion not mine, I'm not sure. Again, read the paragraph about 
> secondary threads:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/overview_thread.html
> 
> "[..] under Win32 a thread can only access GDI objects such as pens, brushes, 
> device contexts created by itself and not by the other threads [..]"
Hi all,

In the meanwhile, I've added support linux/arm and linux/aarch64 for
libcontext, tested on qemu. I'll send a patch later, hope that there'll
be some brave OSX/Windows people to test it ;-)

Cheers,
Tom


> 
> One of the reasons why they strongly recommend "no secondary threads call GUI 
> functions".
> 
> --
> 
> However, if you can ensure that the coroutines never call GUI functions, 
> threads should be a nice alternative. I remember Orson has written, that this 
> should be possible. Maybe he can answer the question if this restriction is 
> still acceptable. Then I could rescue my implementation from my backups.
> 
> Thanks,
> Torsten
> 
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